The Voice - Match preview Bradford City vs Carlisle United Sunday 14th May 2023 @ 7:00pm

Works for me

 

Ah yes the Boris Bowl…………The club did well out of the obese fool.

 

Their capacity is 10.8k ours is more than double that , other than that what do you mean? Their turnover including commercial activity is nothing like ours so how are they the same “ size”?

Turnover / Revenue streams dictates “size” in football parlance without looking.

 

Yeah, but as a small club their stadium can only handle 9,500 or so - not set up for big games like we are, Park!

 

Blah, blah.....Keep going on about the price structure.

Think back to last Sunday. 22576 tickets sold, 1900 from Orient, 14300 season tickets, so you're talking over 6,000 walk ups at full price for that game!!! That's nearly 45% of the season tickets. 66% of the Stockport average. Our average is nearly 4000 above season tickets and that isn't away fans so we get a very decent number of walk ups.

Don't belittle it, more fans and we've attracted more sponsorship and off field earnings as a result of the fanbase.

What is wrong with affordable football? If it wasn't for affordable football I wouldn't have been able to afford to take my two lads when they were younger so not building that relationship and now they've been going for over a combined 30 years in total. Completely addicted.

People moan about the cost of football higher up and people can't afford it and then complain when we make it affordable and get large numbers....jeez....

 

When did Stockport last get 20,000+ and/or average 15,000+ over a decade or more?

 

To be fair, neither were left-footed... they were bastard-footed

 

It's hard to disagree with much of this. In particular point two which shows how rubbish our zonal marking has made us at set pieces and number three which is spot on.

https://widthofapost.com/2023/05/13/the-three-big-questions-ahead-of-bradford-citys-first-leg-play-off-against-carlisle-united/

 

I agee, having just read it. Well my comment it is now or never as far as this season goes, we either find our inner Barcelona or go into the next season in league 2.

 

That’s what some do, even at the expense of wrongly trying to make a point.
I’d still increase the prices to accommodate higher grade football however. Keep the principle but £25-50 a season increase would surely be acceptable to 99% of season owners?

 

Yep all pretty much spot on. I've stated on a couple of other threads that the loss of Chapman has been massive as we dont have an effective direct replacement.
We now have hopefully a 3 game season to play out. MH has got to juggle the pack to find the best solution that will get us over the line. There is nothing to fear in any of the other 3 teams but as the league table shows we are all very closely matched. It will come down to very fine margins and probably who can handle the pressure, so the players in turn need to stand up and be counted when it really matters. Over to you lads!!

 

Agree. The set piece stats are eye opening! As is the comparison of Carlisle to the typical profile of team that we've struggled against all season.

 

My biggest pet peeve under Hughes is that we have all 11 in the box for corners, all 11 if it's a deep free kick yet we always look like we could easily concede.

Even if we just leave 1 up top around the centre circle, that means they leave 2 back I case of a break away. Seems like we constantly bite ourselves having 11 in the box, if we win the header or clear a corner out our area, there's not a single city player there for the 2nd ball and the opposition just have another chance to get it in from 30 yards out.

 

To actually get to the playoffs Hughes must be doing something right. But as has been pointed out elsewhere and by some on here i have never really seen us put a team to the sword over 90 minutes. Each formation Hughes has tried has shown that we ultimately didn't have a good enough squad to go up automatically despite the pre season hype. As an attacking unit Andy Cook has pulled us out of the mire in plenty of games, defensively Harry Lewis has shown how a truly decent keeper can make a difference to your season.

 

Zonal marking at corners isn't necessarily bad. West Ham defended 110 corners this season before conceding from one. But if you do it then you have to do it properly, and we clearly are not doing so. Whether that's down to poor coaching or players not following instructions, I'm not sure.

 

Totally agree, it has been like this all season, how are we to get it out safely if there is nobody there? Plus you are giving the opposition two or three free corners and the pressure eventually cracks. In my view that is why we concede in corners and free kicks around the box.

 

Whatever the reason we cannot really compare the Prem to L2 Offy, although I do under your meaning.